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Two in hospital after shootings

TWO men are in the hospital after being shot in separate incidents on Saturday. 

Wanted man shot by police after he 'attacked officers with a knife'

POLICE shot a wanted suspect on Wednesday morning after he allegedly attacked officers with a knife. Jeffery Etienne, of Okra Hill, who was wanted by officers of the Central Detective Unit for stealing, was shot in the thigh and taken to hospital, where he is listed in stable condition and under heavy police guard.

Spying is a sign of the modern era

THE headline yesterday on the alleged listening in by the US NSA to our cellphone conversations raises an obvious issue but surely it is not in the fact of the US listening but if our primary routing of our calls takes them through the US - if the listening occurs in the US do we have any beef or even legal position to object?

Man in hospital after being stabbed by girlfriend

AUTHORITIES want the public’s help in solving three separate violent crimes – one of them a domestic dispute – that has left the victims recovering in hospital in stable condition.

INSIGHT: ‘Look at me! Can’t you see the Grim Reaper beside me?’

A gang “general” has given The Tribune an insight into the background behind the recent spate of killings which have left the blood of young men running in our streets.

Seeking justice after six and a half years in Detention Centre

THOUGH it has been more than a year since Douglas Ngumi was released from the Carmichael Road Detention Centre, yesterday the Kenyan national broke down whenever his lawyer mentioned how long – six and a half years – he had spent in the facility despite being ordered to be deported.

TALKING SENSE: The economics of stem cells

IMAGINE living in a world where a drug-free fix for HIV/AIDS existed, or a cure for cancer, blindness, Parkinson’s, diabetes, heart disease, even Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Appeal bid dismissed for man convicted of kidnapping, robbing laundromat manager

A MAN convicted of kidnapping and robbing the manager of a Fox Hill laundromat at gunpoint almost a decade ago has had his bid to legally challenge his 25-year sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal.

FACE TO FACE: It’s never too late to turn your life around

Amein Burrows has completely turned his life around and believes if he has done it, so can the countless young men in this country who find themselves in a revolving door situation with the cops and the courts. He found the life he was chasing after – quick, fast money, nice cars and girls – came with a price too heavy to bear.

Web shop chain holds seminar on addiction

THE operators of the Chances Games web shop chain on Wednesday hosted the company’s second responsible gaming seminar to equip its New Providence staff with the resources to adequately assist customers exhibiting compulsive gambling habits.

Sugar Part III: What’s all the fuss about?

AFTER spending two weeks looking at what sugar actually is, and what our bodies to do it once we’ve ingested it, it is finally time to wake up and smell the cavities.

Bahamians have lost their moral compass

ABOUT 1,445 years before the birth of Christ, a book of laws was written by Moses for the Israelites giving them guidelines as to the way in which God expected them to govern their lives. The book of Leviticus contains the laws “for all-time throughout the ages.” It told man that he must decide “between the saved and the profane and between the unclean and the clean”.

Further taxes too on alcohol and tobacco and rise in NIB ceiling

GOVERNMENT consultants have suggested the Christie administration levy a 5.8 per cent pay roll tax, increase taxes on “luxury items” such as alcohol and tobacco and “double” the ceiling for National Insurance Board contributions to fund the proposed National Health Insurance scheme, The Tribune understands.

Immigration policy exacerbates worker productivity crisis

The Immigration Department’s “closed door” work permit policies are exacerbating the Bahamas’ productivity crisis, a top private sector executive yesterday warning they were making it impossible for companies to hire the “unemployable”.

'Preggars': What makes a 'serial mother'

By KIRKLAND H PRATT

Jailhouse wedding

On perusing The Tribune’s 22/01/2015 issue the headline story “Police failed says Nottage” and the lead story “Nottage: Jailhouse wedding discipline not down to me” on page 3 aroused my curiosity so I read them first.

Bahamian economy ‘as low as it can go’

The Bahamian economy has “gone as low as it can go”, with the Chamber’s chief executive yesterday conceding that progress on improving the ‘ease of doing business’ was not happening “as fast as we’d like”.

‘A poor excuse for governance’

The Attorney General yesterday said he and environmental chiefs are aiming to complete a “page by page” review of an Act that has brought scientific research in The Bahamas to a near-standstill “by the end of next week”.

The shifting sands of Bahamian politics

LADY PINDLING'S appearance at the PLP's Clifford Park rally Friday night - to "set the record straight" for her "PLP family" - brought back many memories of the upheaval created by the Commission of Inquiry into drugs. It also highlighted the shifting sands of politics.

The 'bridge from Sir Lynden to the future'

IN Marathon last night to introduce attorney Heather Hunt as the FNM’s candidate for that constituency, Prime Minister Ingraham announced that on Wednesday the House of Assembly had finished its work. It is now up to Mr Ingraham to set a date for the election, which must come before May 23 when constitutionally the life of the five-year parliament automatically ends.

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